Port of Corpus Christi

The Port of Corpus Christi is located in Texas on the western Gulf of Mexico, and is the sixth largest port in the United States in total tonnage. Its exports include coal, fuel oil, gasoline, feed stock, diesel, alumina, petroleum coke, toluene, cumene gas oil, and asphalt.

In February 2011, it was announced that New Elk Coal had entered into an arrangement with the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas for a long-term lease of 18 acres of land that will serve as a coal storage area, adjacent to the shipping channel and proximate to the bulk coal ship-loader, to provide New Elk with immediate access to export coal markets for its metallurgical coal. The property lease was effective February 8, 2011 for an initial five-year lease, with the option to extend the lease for five additional periods of five years. The facility is capable of exporting 2 million tons per year (tpy) and additional storage area is available to the company at the port to accommodate future mine production schedules. The port will ship coal from the New Elk Mine in Colorado.

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